Cara Spencer

St. Louis Alderwoman Cara Spencer has resigned from the city’s nonprofit development arm, the St. Louis Development Corporation, citing internal dysfunction and a lack of transparency.

In addition to passing the budget for fiscal 2025, aldermen also teed up several major policy proposals for passage before they go on their shortened summer recess.

Cara Spencer, currently the 8th Ward alderwoman, announced on social media on Thursday that she plans to challenge Mayor Tishaura Jones in 2025. The two faced off in 2021, when Jones won by 4 percentage points.

Mayor Tishaura Jones has implemented a hiring freeze for the city's nonemergency workers to prepare for financial challenges. It comes as the Board of Aldermen overrode the mayor's veto of a bill allowing a firefighter board to negotiate pensions.

Thirteen people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured in traffic crashes in St. Louis in the first three months of 2023, according to Trailnet, a pedestrian and bike advocacy group.

Explore St. Louis says an additional $30 million to $40 million may be needed to cover rising expansion costs at America's Center in downtown St. Louis.

St. Louis could lose more than $500,000 in revenue and won't be able to begin collecting until early 2024 after the city didn't charge a 3% tax for recreational marijuana last month.

The city’s charter has required most full-time employees to live in the city since 1914. Voters rejected an effort to lift that requirement in 2020.

The legislation tries to address the proliferation of teenagers openly carrying guns downtown.

The ordinance would stop the open carry of firearms without a concealed carry permit. A similar proposal, which would have barred minors from carrying a firearm in public without adult supervision, failed to gain ground in the state legislature this year.